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Steve Brodie

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Don't you just love 'em......

In a weird kind of way yep !, that feeling of satisfaction when you lift a run of the jig and they are all joined together , more a sense of relief i suppose !!! but when they not - aRRGFGGGGGGHHHH
 

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Looking very nice this. Those tracks look the biz.
 

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8 runs of 10 complete, only another 12 to go !!!!. What i have noticed is on some sprues the 'nibs' on the inner connectors look like they are moulded into the connector (circled in red), so require cutting higher up the attachment point and more gentle sanding, of the 80 links i have only damaged, so far, 6 - still usable,but will need gluing into place.

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Lost the will to live with the trummpy tracks, to many broke when removing from the sprue, removing the hole and creating a gap, which the pin wont stay in, also quite a few wouldn't, for love nor money, line up on the jig :mad:. So last night it was out with the masking tape and line up the Takom tracks ready for some glue tonight. Will tack the wheels in place with some white glue and fix the tracks in place and hopefully the whole lot will detach as one unit, well that's the theory anyway :smiling3:
 

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Just caught up with this Steve and it looks a very interesting project indeed.
Those track links look very intricate too. I have some workable tracks for my panzer Iv Lang but that's for another day.
I'll be arching this from here on in
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Took a bit of a break from the Shilka and cracked on with this one, must say the plastic is loads better on this takom kit than Mengs Shilka, you can cut right up to the part with some sprue cutters on Takoms kit, try it on Mengs Shilka and you just seem to rip chunks out of the part,

Anyway - top plate has been fixed to the chassis tub and started work on the fenders, can be built away from the body and added once completed. Some nice etch and the clasps on the tool boxes are excellent.

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Paracel's NVA officer, not sure on the 'Kinder Surprise' coloured resin, but details are nice and sharp !

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managed to get a rare afternoon of building in whilst watching the rugby, so both fender's completed, fuel tank's added and lights,
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test fitted the turret and its huge

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Looks good Steve! That turret is as big as my front room! ;)

How you ever managed to do some building during the France-Wales match I'll never know! That was some crazy game :confused:
 

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How you ever managed to do some building during the France-Wales match I'll never know! That was some crazy game :confused:

it just got farsical 94 minutes, but did give France the win ! And the England game was pants, so needed a distraction and all those etch dividers certainly provided that :smiling:
 

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So the other night i got the plumbing in for the fuel tanks a couple of smaller pieces added to the rear hull and then started on the 'kit in a kit' the gun, Sprue J is all for the gun, over 100 bits of plastic on here along with Sprue M, even more bits. deep breath and off we go ......

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Work started on the gun, no issues just a lot of small parts, that dont seem to look like anything until you start attaching them to other bits and then its 'ahhhh thats what it is :smiling3:

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Looking good Steve. There is more parts to the gun than there is to my latest build.
 

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4o minutes to build this 'thingy-ma-whatsit', 40 minutes !! :sad::sad: - admittedly that was due to the glue drying, the more you put on the less stable the whole structure seems to become, lots of bits to knock off :mad:

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That does look very fragile & easy to break off the bit you've just glued Steve!
 
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Nice build up Steve, great looking crisp detail, looking forward to seeing the completed scale model.
 
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